scaning n/w and finding puppet agent

[kaustubh chaudhari]

Hi,

Just had a though if this is possible. I have seen this feature in HPSA.

Is there a way to scan the n/w and find the nodes who dont have puppet installed on them ?

-Kaustubh

[Jason Antman]

Not built-in to puppet, but this should be trivial to do with nmap or a similar tool and a list of the nodes that *are* running puppet.

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[jcbollinger]

On Saturday, September 27, 2014 12:48:01 PM UTC-5, Jason Antman wrote:

Not built-in to puppet, but this should be trivial to do with nmap or a similar tool and a list of the nodes that *are* running puppet.

No, not at all.  With nmap you could probably identify nodes running the puppet *master*, but you cannot reliably identitfy whether nodes are running the agent because the agent does not necessarily accept network requests.  You could find only those that do, which at many sites (mine, for example) would be none.

The most you could do would be to monitor all network traffic to see which nodes talk to the puppetmaster, but that's not guaranteed to identify all agents, and collecting the data would take a longish time.


John